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ASTRONOMY COLLECTION

Noble Planetarium Foyer

There’s plenty to see even before you enter the Noble Planetarium’s digital dome. Outside in the queuing area is a collection of some of the Museum’s most significant astronomical possessions, including:

The Spitz A-1 Starball, the original planetarium projector starball used by Miss Charlie Mary Noble in a canvas tent in the backyard of the original Fort Worth Children’s Museum in the early 1950s.

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Outside in the Noble Planetarium queuing area is a collection of some of the Museum’s most significant astronomical possessions.